Too Big to Ignore

Similar to those in other parts of the world, small-scale fishers in Europe face many challenges, like market competition, urban development, and the expansion of coastal tourism. Despite the challenges, small-scale fisheries have tended to get relatively little attention in fishery management debates. The new Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), still under negotiation and expected to [...]

The Too Big to Ignore network is compiling an online inventory of researchers in small-scale fisheries as part of the development of a global information system for small-scale fisheries (ISSF). This information will be made available in the future as an online database with free, public access. Once that happens, there will be opportunities for [...]

The TBTI sponsored workshop: “Fishing Futures: Articulating Alternatives in North American Small-Scale Fisheries” is organized by the North America region and working group 5 and will be held June 12-15, 2013, at the Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Participants are also invited to stay for a follow up workshop to be held [...]

The TBTI-CZAP-SEAFDEC Workshop on “Small-scale fisheries: livelihoods, wellbeing, vulnerability and governance” and the Asia & Oceania regional meeting took place between December 17-20, 2012, in Bangkok, Thailand. The workshop was jointly organized by the SSHRC-funded global research partnership on small-scale fisheries, Too Big to Ignore, the Coastal Zone Asia-Pacific (CZAP) Secretariat and the Southeast Asian [...]

The first meeting of the SSHRC-funded global research partnership on small-scale fisheries (SSF), Too Big To Ignore (TBTI), took place September 4-6, 2012, in St. John’s, Canada. The purpose of the workshop was to enable TBTI members to meet personally, to understand role and responsabilities, to exchange ideas, experiences and thinking about SSF, to develop work [...]